Overview of the BDD Management Pack

The Microsoft® Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) Management Pack monitors the status of the Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Operating System Deployment (OSD) Feature Pack and BDD 2007 for Windows Vista™ and the 2007 Microsoft Office system (BDD 2007) deployment processes. By detecting, alerting on, and automatically responding to critical events and performance indicators, this Management Pack reduces the time required to resolve issues in SMS OSD Feature Pack and BDD 2007 deployments. As a result, when client computers are deployed using these methods, the BDD Management Pack reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO).

While the Management Pack works best when used to monitor operating system deployments that use BDD 2007, team members can still use some of the capabilities even if only using the SMS OSD Feature Pack.

Note   In addition to the reports in this Management Pack, teams can use the Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Operator console or MOM 2005 Web console to help resolve alerts, view events, view computer attributes, and so on.

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Management Pack Monitoring Scenarios Management Pack Monitoring Scenarios
State Monitoring Definitions State Monitoring Definitions
Tasks Tasks
Reports Reports
Management Pack Views Management Pack Views
Agentless Monitoring Agentless Monitoring

Management Pack Monitoring Scenarios

Table 1 lists the BDD 2007 scenarios and provides a description of each.

Table 1. Management Pack Monitoring Scenarios

Scenario

Description

Monitor status of SMS OSD Feature Pack and BDD deployment processes

Management Pack helps you identify:

  • The number of client computers successfully deployed.

  • The number of client computers with deployment errors.

  • The status of client computers with deployment errors.

Reporting of deployment progress

Management Pack includes reports that list:

  • The number of client computers successfully deployed.

  • The number of client computers with failed status.

  • The number of client computers not yet attempted.

Graphical representation of deployment progress

Management Pack includes a pie chart graph that lists:

  • The percentage of client computers successfully deployed.

  • The percentage of client computers with failed status.

  • The percentage of client computers not yet attempted.

State Monitoring Definitions

There are no BDD 2007–specific services to be monitored. However, perform state monitoring provided by the Management Pack for the following products and technologies:

  • SMS 2003

  • Microsoft Active Directory® directory service

  • Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000

  • Microsoft Windows Server® Base Operating System

  • Microsoft Security Baseline Analyzer (MBSA)

Tasks

There are no tasks in the existing Management Pack.

Reports

Table 2 lists the reports included in this Management Pack.

Table 2. Management Pack Reports

Reports

Description

Zero Touch Installation (ZTI) Active Deployment Phase Summary

Displays a columnar report that provides summary information about the number of computer currently in the following SMS OSD Feature Pack state phases:

  • Validation

  • State Capture

  • Preinstall

  • Install

  • Postinstall

  • State Restore

ZTI Deployment Duration

Displays a report that displays the average length of time required to successfully deploy:

  • New computers

  • Refreshed computers

In addition, teams can view the length of time required to deploy individual computers in each category.

ZTI Deployment Status Active Detail

Displays a columnar report that provides detailed information about computers that have an Active state status, The report displays computers grouped by the following SMS OSD Feature Pack state phases:

  • Validation

  • State Capture

  • Preinstall

  • Install

  • Postinstall

  • State Restore

ZTI Deployment Status Detail

Displays a columnar report that provides detailed information about computers that have the following state status:

  • Inactive

  • Completed Computers—Successful

  • Completed Computers—Failed

ZTI Deployment Status Summary

Displays a report that lists the number of computers for each of the following state status:

  • Active

  • Inactive

  • Completed Computers—Successful

  • Completed Computers—Failed

Teams can link to the ZTI Deployment Status Active Detail and ZTI Deployment Status Detail reports from this report.

ZTI User State Migration Usage

Displays a report that lists the sum of estimated and actual disk usage by day. Expand each day to see the individual computers within a day.

Management Pack Views

Table 3 lists the views included in this Management Pack.

Table 3. Management Pack Views

Type

View

BDD

Displays a columnar report that lists computers under the following categories:

  • Alerts

  • Computers

  • Computer Groups

  • Events

  • Performance

Agentless Monitoring

The BDD Management Pack does not support agentless monitoring.

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